Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have worries of this kind a visit to the local office of the Department of health and Social Security , plus an interview with a social worker at the local authority social services department , is a very wise move . |
| 2 | Most will need two injections of intermediate-acting insulin a day with some short-acting to cover breakfast , a mid-morning snack and lunch . |
| 3 | During the final five minutes of this sequence a period of intense activity was obvious and coincided with the emptying of water from the stomach and duodenal bulb . |
| 4 | At the height of the troubles the hospital was seeing 100 cases of major trauma a day . |
| 5 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 6 | For reasons of national security a law of 1837 and a decree-law of 1851 conferred on the state a monopoly of transmissions by telegraph , and the policing of the airwaves . |
| 7 | Any child can come with its parents for one hour a month . |
| 8 | Walker estimates that the Alcan aluminium plant , currently demanding about 20 000 tonnes of caustic soda a year , will eventually need 70 000 tonnes a year . |
| 9 | Courtaulds España produces 62,000 tonnes of acrylic fibre a year . |
| 10 | This means that if the UK is to stay self-sufficient , some 40 million tonnes of new production a year must be achieved by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | Farmers produce between five and six million tonnes of surplus straw a year — with the ban on stubble-burning , they 're going to be spending alot more of their time dealing with it in the future . |
| 12 | The computer controlled system , which will also monitor emissions , will process 4.25m tonnes of molten iron a year . |
| 13 | This year their new year 's dinner was not the traditional pig , but 12 ounces of frozen chicken a head and three bottles of rum to a family . |
| 14 | If Deeds like this demand a Blessing , then |
| 15 | The epidemiology , at least in temperate zones , is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature . |
| 16 | At the time of interview , he had cut his habit down from 2 grams to 0.25 gram a day and was ‘ saving up ’ small amounts of methadone that he 'd bought in doses of 50ml at 5 a time : |
| 17 | ‘ For the purposes of this section a threat can not be made by the use of words alone . ’ |
| 18 | ( 2 ) For purposes of this section a person is to be treated as obtaining property if he obtains ownership , possession or control of it , and ‘ obtain ’ includes obtaining for another or enabling another to obtain or to retain . |
| 19 | Then after ten weeks in residential care a family meeting was planned . |
| 20 | There was an unfortunate incident at the Christabel Focus : two young girls , aged six and eight respectively , hitched up their trousers to better climb a rope ladder in the presence of a visiting male observer from a possible funding body . |
| 21 | Companies can meet these needs by internal financing-maintaining a liquidity cushion and/or retaining profits rather than distributing them to shareholders . |
| 22 | Scandinavia is still rising , in places by one metre a century , after the removal of the ice at the end of the last glaciation some 10,000 years ago . |
| 23 | We take two-and-a-half to three-year-olds for one morning a week and three to five-year-olds for the other four mornings . |
| 24 | 29 Growing Noble Metals through Total Quality a look at how Noble Metals in Royston is growing in what continues to be a depressed marketplace |
| 25 | … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue . |
| 26 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 27 | Only in Kempe 's noted version on EMI ( 2/88 ) have I felt so strongly the main attributes of Lohengrin : here Robert Heger , the very epitome of the Kapellmeister manner at its best , give to the many passages of formal utterance a grandeur and intensity so often missing in studio performances , culminating in a magnificent outpouring at the final greeting to Elsa in Act 2 . |
| 28 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 29 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |
| 30 | British pigs produce about seven million gallons of liquid muck a day , posing a big disposal problem for farmers and a water quality headache . |